EESA Staff Scientist Charlie Koven has been selected to receive the 2021 Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s largest Earth and space science society. He will receive the award at a ceremony during the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting in December. Koven, who studies interactions between…
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Earth’s critical zone spans from the top of the tree canopy to the depths of the subsurface. Researchers across the world study instrumented critical zone observatories and equivalent watershed sites to examine hydrological fluxes, energy matter, and biogeochemical cycles for insights into how factors like land use and climate change are affecting Earth systems. Now…
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Research scientist Haruko Wainwright is being celebrated for her role in helping Berkeley Lab provide exceptional mentorship of the next generation of STEM professionals. Wainwright is one of six scientists being recognized this summer for their unique contributions as mentors through the various internships offered by Berkeley Lab: Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI), the…
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In the atmosphere, long, narrow, whip-like plumes carry water vapor from the tropics to the mid latitudes. These plumes are shaped by variability in and geographic differences in air pressure. Stretching longer than 1,000 miles, these rivers in the sky called atmospheric rivers can transport massive water vapor amounts, sometimes as much as 15…
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Andrew Jones, research scientist, in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, co-chairs an Urban Systems Working Group for the Multisector Dynamics Community, a group which aims to improve understanding of the co-evolution of human and natural systems over time and foster the interdisciplinary collaborations needed to study complex human-environment interactions. From July 21 through 23, the…
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Berkeley Lab’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development program has informed recipients across the laboratory of new and renewed funding for their projects beginning in October. In EESA, ten individuals will receive funding for new and continuing projects. All EESA projects are named below. Berkeley Lab’s LDRD program exists because the United States Congress has allowed federal Laboratory…
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CESD Senior Scientist Margaret Torn was one of three experts invited to participate in the recording of a virtual panel discussion with Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, the Deputy Director for Climate and Environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), on Thursday, July 22. The…
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On June 4, Lara Kueppers, a faculty Scientist in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Assistant Professor in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley participated in a panel on Drought Impacts on Forests and Expected Wildfire Behavior at the UC Wildfire Research Symposium. The half-day event was developed by UC…
Read MoreA team of researchers was able to reconstruct hundreds of microbial genomes from complex soil samples to show that soils bounded by individual river meanders capture processes that occur in soils bounded by other meanders along the river corridor. A paper describing their study was recently published in the journal Microbiome. Their study focuses on…
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This article appeared first at lbl.gov. When a climate-warming gas such as carbon dioxide or methane is emitted into the atmosphere, its impacts may be felt years and even decades into the future – in the form of rising sea levels, changes in agricultural productivity, or more extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods,…
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